Security News > 2011 > March > Data Breach Affects 2,777 Henry Ford Health System Patients

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Data-Breach-Affects-2777-Henry-Ford-Health-System-Patients-415908/ By Brian T. Horowitz eWEEK.com 2011-03-09 The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has started notifying by postal mail 2,777 patients affected by a missing flash drive. The nonprofit health system, founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford, serves 102,000 patients annually. The Henry Ford Health System on Feb. 8 began its investigation of the Jan. 31 security breach to determine the affected patients and what information the device held. The health system is unaware of how the flash drive disappeared, but now knows that patients tested at the hospital for a urinary tract infection from July 2010 to October 2010 were affected. The flash drive held patient names, medical record numbers, the number of tests ordered, test results, test dates and test locations. No Social Security numbers were on the drive, however. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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